I’m late to Celebrate This Week with Ruth Ayers. Thank you Ruth for making me come to this page with my celebration. It took a while to figure it out. Find other celebrations and post your own here.
This week I’m celebrating revision.
It’s Monday morning. My plans are clear in my mind. My vision of the day and the week is possible. Sort of fairy tale like.
Monday, I walk into my classroom and try to open the google slide doc I want to share. Google docs is blocked. I revised.
Tuesday, “C” is walking to class with no backpack. Hmm. “Hey ‘C’, back pack?”
“I left it in my dad’s truck.”
He has nothing to work with. No book, no writing. We revised his day.
Wednesday, after recess, three students are in the office, not in class. All students are clearly disturbed by the absence and needed to let me know. This process takes time and what was envisioned my me doesn’t happen. So we revised.
I started the week armed with some theories about how students experience independent reading and read aloud. Thursday and Friday, I started testing my theories. The answers students gave me were instructive and shook up my next steps. Which is good. So I revised.
This week was filled with not much that worked according to plan. Most steps I tried to take required stepping back and revising. Frustrating at the end of the day. It felt like I’d gone no where.
Teaching takes a lot of revision, rethinking. Frustratingly necessary. Fortunately there is next week.
To Read To Write To Be 
Yep. Constant revision is part of teaching and learning. I like that you chose to celebrate the revision after a frustrating day. That’s your revision of perspective.
Haha! I LOVE this!!! I have never thought of how much revision we, as teachers, do each week, each day, each block!! LOVE this post!!
That’s what teachers do all.the.time. It sounds as if you found ways to make things okay, although it is frustrating! My biggest revision story is when I’d planned a wonderful (I thought) walking trip for journaling on the 2nd day of school one year, & a student walked in with a broken leg! Revised! Hope it’s a great week next week, Juieanne!
Yes! Revision is what I experience everyday. We plan, but have to be ready to revise at any moment. It’s frustrating, but also a great way to help us try new things.
Glad you were able to look at your week through the revision lens. It’s what we do all the time, frustratingly necessary. Hopefully, this week will be better.